urn : Idioms & Phrases

• vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

Webster 1913

• noun an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot
  

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• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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• an urn for holding the ashes of the dead.

Webster 1913

• noun an urn in which tea is brewed and from which it is served
  

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• a vessel generally in the form of an urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing, tea.

Webster 1913

• noun an urn-shaped discomycete with a nearly black interior
  Urnula craterium.
  

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• (Bot.), the order of true mosses; so called because the capsules of many kinds are urn-shaped.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite having a concave shape like an urn
  

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Urn"-shaped` adjective

Definitions

1. Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.

Webster 1913

• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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